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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-04-16

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FOL IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, APRIL 1G, 1863. NO. 24. THE MOl NT VKRSOX HEPl liLICAN T K 11 M S : For one year ( invariably iu ndvance)8-.00 lor six nonUis, TKHMS (r AI'VKUTtSl.NO. One sijuare, " week, One square, !! months, One square, U muiiths, One square, 1 year, One square (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly. Two squares, '! weeks, Two squares, 0 weeks, Two squares, " months, Two squares, 0 months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, ii weeks, Three squares, li weeks, Three squares, 3 mouth, Three squares, 0 months, Threo suuares. 1 vear, 1,00 i 0(1 4,;U li.00 lU.OU 15.00 i'-.- !i.2f I ('..;.) s.oo 2.50 4,50 (i.lill 8.00 10AJ0 One-1'ourth column, chan. quarterly, l.'i.DO Oncthird " ' 11 " --.00 One-hall' " " " 28,0(1 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or calling attention to tiny enterprise nitciuluJ to benefit individuals or corporations, will ho charged at the rate often cents per line. Select poctvn THE HOME OF MY YOUTH. BY V. C. (iOUI.D. 'Can this be the home of my youth Where iu childhood Igaiubol'dauc'.play'd Can this be the house where I liv'd And it; that the fame room where I lay? Oh! where is that tree, where the birds Came so o'tjii to chirp and to sing? Can that be the same running brook Whence the water we often did bring? How vacant, how scattered those woods, Where the pheasant oft beat with his wing Wher,e flie whippowill always was heard U'Jacn tlieevcuwgfl grew sarw in ! spring ! The willow and black-walnut trtes, With their hws!cs of nuts all around, Which the swine li.d , patiently crack Till the snow lay quite deep on the ground ! Those pear trees that bore in the fall. And were sure tobe loaded with fruit-That stood up so straight and so tall, Are dead from the top to the root. That soft, gentle voice of my mother The voice that was always so dear 'Twould be sweeter than lnusic of heaven, If now it could break on luv ear. Oh. that mother .'that dearest of mothers! Not a mortal o.i earth can I find Whcretheohurdsofattaehnientarecqual 1J here the chains of affection so kind. If now I could see my dear mother If but ever I could meet her again How light would that heart be within me, And my tears would run dowu like the rain! But my father and mother arc gone, And my mother 'aud sisters are dead; Oh! how lonely, how dreary I feel, While my heart weighs within mc like lead! MY IIISBAXD. I love the man who well can bear " Misfortunes angry frown; I love tho heart that spurns despair Though all its friends have flowu. I love tho soul so nobly proud That misery cannot blight; Tho soul that braves tho jeering crowd And still adheres to right. I love that fortitude rcGncd H'liich sorrows cannot shake; I love the strength of soul and mind No earthly power can break. I love the man that scorus to bend Beneath affections blast Who trusts in an Almighty friend To soothe his woes at last. HOW THEY DID IT. The magnates of Uichmoud all sworo out of hand, That tho war must go in tho enemies' laud. And it did. When they crossed to the Maryland shore, They turned all into foes who were friendly before. Continental. A writer beautifully remarks that a man's mother is the representative of his Maker. Misfortuue and crime set no harriers bf twepn her and her son. While his mother lives, a man has one friend on earth who wiJi not desert him when lie is needy. lIcrfToetion flows from a pure nilnlnin t.n.l , ... 1 r, I 1,A . . .ul,),uu,Mai11,ui, ui nm uvcuu 01 eternity. The Soldier's Letter. iiv t. .s. Aitnint. "When did von hear from Thomas''" A vuiini; i,i . liii l .. . r . g lady had stopped at the door of a '-ninll house, standing on the outskirts of a ...WiivillHL'einlVniisylvuiia.andaskedthiHnues - tioii of a wi iiian who sat working i coarse garment, "It't more than two mouths since a nl I've! had a word from him." replied the woman i11 " hlf troubled, half complaining tone. Thou rising, she added, "won't you come in, .Mi.-s Annie!''' The young lady accepted the invitation, and as the took the proffered chair, caid: 'Two mouth is a long time not to have hctrd from yourson, Mrs. llogers. Where is he?" 'The last news I had come from Williamsburg, just after the battle, lie sent uie three or four lines to let uie know that ho wasn't hurt." "And you have heard nothing since?" "Nothing, Miss Annie. lie may be dead or a prisoner, for all 1 know. Oil dear' Oh dear! It is worrying the life out of me." 'When, did you write to him last?" inquired the young lady. Mrs llogers moved uneasily, and a shame flush covered her face ins she replied: ' I haven't taken a pen in my fingers these five years. They're all cramped with hard work, and I couldn't write fit to be teen." "A single line from your hand, blotted and serwled though it might havo been, would havo come toThonias in his faraway camp as a most welcome visitor from home. Think of his comrades getting letters every mail while there camo not a word or a tokcu for him." "Oh! but Miss Annie, I've sent him two nali- of stockiiiL's knit with my own hands, auJ h(j,g SQ much as Iot mc kll(nv hu rcceived ,ilcm "A 'fetter should havo accompanied them." said the young lady. "The stockings, if they ever reached him, were but a dumb sign; a living sentence, even if ho had been obliged to spell it out slowly from ill-formed words, would havo spoken to his heart, and warmed it with a living pleasure. Write to your sou,, Mrs llogers. Nothing you can send himfeiU do Thomas half as much good as a letter from his mother. A single line will bo precious. Don't let him any longer have the feeling among his comrads, that he alone has no one to care for him, or send him sweet remembrances." 'f thm't believe I can write, Miss Au- i I nic," said Mrs llogers. ! "Try. Have you a pen and ink?" j "No Miss. As 1 told you just now, I I have not had a pen m my lingers these five years; and 1 don't believe I could compose a letter even if I had skill to write it out, "You must try, Mrs llogers. It will never do in the world for Thomas to goany longer without a letter from home. I have a spare inkstand, and will step around for it," And the young lady arose, sayiiig,as she went cut: "I'll he back in a little while, with pen, ink, and paper. Between us Thomas must have a letter." On Annie's return with the writing ma. terials, Mrs llogsrs, still reluctant to undertake the unaccustomed task of penning a letter, sat down, half perforce, audiuade sundry awkward atteuips to form words aud sentences, by way of practice, before essaying the epistle, which her ardent young visitor had mado up her mind should be produced and mailed to an absent soldier that day. "Very well done! Of course vou can i write!" said Annie, encouragingly, as she watched tho efforts of Mrs llogers. "Now take a sheet of paper, and just think you are talking to him. Writedown whatever you would like to say, just as much about home, of what is going on hero as you think would interest him, as you can call it to mind. Take your time to it, aud don't feel hurried. L 11 coma around again in the course of an hour, and see what you have done. Then we'll both go over it, and I'll make all tho corrections needed o that you can copy it out fairly. My word for it, there will be a nice letter for Thomas, that will do do his heart good." In an hour Annie came back, as she hal promised. Jrs llogers had fiillcd two pages of paper with rather badly spelled sentences, hut the matter was all right, as far as it went. Annie made all needed corrections, and then waited until Mrs llogers had copied the letter whbh she folded and directed for her. "Shall I mail it for you?" "If you please," said Mrs llogcr". Aud the young lady went away, taking the letter. Since learning that Thomas Rjgcrs, whom she very well ccincntherod I' . I ' , ... - . 1 iiau not onco recciveu a letter jrom Ins I mother, although he had been absent over a year, she had felt pily uud concered for the young man, whom felio reincmherod as a little wild in his habits before ho wont into the army. This had made her the j luil'. ni'rr.tiif ll..i 1. .....It..... . .1 . ! ' mci.,,. in,,,, uic muiuei miuiuu no . , . .,' , . . :"", "l"-' " ' ""ul'' ""-' cncunisuiuces. ; v, : .. , i ' . i i , ... . ., v" -.. " , .u,,. .u.aT,u uweu on me young 1 ' . . i ... , 1 . . i particular case, 11 uiu uoi seem 10 icr all tliat was needed. 'I will write to him?' she said, as the! jcaso continued to dwell in her mind, pre sented itself in a stronger light. He was once, for a short time, my scholar in Sunday School, and that shall be my warrant.' So she wrote him a brief, but pointed and earnest letter, touching his duty as a soldier and as a man. Not in a superior, lecturing tone; but in a kind suggestive way, and in language calculated to touch his feelings and arouse his better nature. Au officer sat in his tent, near Ciains' Mills, Virginia, three days previous to tho assault on the right winy of our army before Uichmoud. 'In the guard-house again!' he said, speaking to the orderly, who had just submitted his report. There were regret us well as discouragement in his voice. 'What are wo to do with tho man?' 'You will have to order severe punish-mcnts. Single confinement iu the guardhouse is of no use.' 'lie has in him all the elemcuts of a good soldier,' remarked the efficer. No one goes through the manual better. He is perfectly drilled; is quick, steady and brave. At Williamsburg he fought like a liou. I cannot forget, that to his prompt courage I owe my life. No no not severe punishment. Wc must bear with him a little longer. What is his olTeuce now?' 'lie was away at roll call; aud his report of himself is not satisfactory. The man is restless and brooding; and sometimes is so ill-uatuu.d as to make trouble with his comrades.' The officer sat in thought some time He was about speaking when a sergeant came iu with letters, a mail having been received. In running his eyes over them he noticed two directed to Thomas llogers, the soldier reported in the guard-house.- lie held them for a moment in lus hand, and then laid them aside with his own letters.'Let me see you in half au hourhe paid to the orderly. 'We must do something to reform this man. There is good iu hiin if we can only discover tho way to make it active.' The orderly ret i ltd, and the officer be- came occupied with his letters. After get- ting through with thcin, word was passed to have Rogers brought before him. lie came under guard, but the guard was dismissed, aud the man was alone with the officer, who regarded him more in pity than in anger. The soldier was u young man, not over twenty years of age; of slender form, but compactly built, and muscular. Kveu under disgrace, there was a manly self-poise about him that did uot escape tho officer's notice. "Under arrest again! What have you to say for yourself?" the officer tried to be stcru and to speak with severity. The soldier did not answer, but a look, half dogged, half defiant, was visible in his face. "I shall have to order severe punishment."There was no reply only a slight change in attitude and expression of countenance, that indicated a bracing of mind and nerve for more endurance. "When did you hear from home?" ask ed the officer, who did not remember to have sceu a letter addressed to Rogers uu til the receipt of that day's mail. "Not for a long time," was answered, and with apparent surprise at so unexpected a question. "Here arc two letters to your address." And the officer, who had tho letters in his hand, held them towards the soldier, who started with a strange look of surprise and bewilderment, and received the,m with a hand that trembled visibly. "Sit down and read them," said the officer, pointing to a camp-stool. Tho man sat down, showing considerable excitement, and, after looking curiously at tho delicate ly written superscriptions, opened one of tho letters and glanced it through hurriedly. The officer's gaze was on him, and he read in bis counteu anco the rapid play. of various emotions. Then ho opened the second letter, which ho read twice. As he finished it ho drew his hand hastily across his eyes. "From home?" queried tho officer. The young man stood up, giving the usual sign of respect, as he answered in the affirmative. The officer noticed that his flice WM gravcr anJ paici.. onJ tllat all the late look of dogged defiau:e had faded out. "And now, Rogers, what have you to Ray for yourself? Will you foreo us to severer punishment? You know, as Well us I do, that discipline must ho enforced. " There was rcnionstance, not anger, iu the . IV. '. oiiiccr a voice, "Only this, answerod tho soldier, hum- L, t ; u (h.m yoI I have done wrong, and am sorry. Forgive uie; and if 1 break a rule of the service again, shoot o i mc. ''S'w,kc,n liko " mn aml a.s,M,!r: . 1 will trust llogers," said the olliccr, and dis missing the guard, ho sent him to duty. Two days afterwards camo that overwhelming" assault upon our right wing, and on tho next day the terrible conflict at Gaines' 31 ill. Among tho coolest and bravest in all the fierce battles that followed, and among tho mot enduring in the long nights of retreat was young llogers. llo wtfs with a body of infantry which lay at Malvern Hill, under our death dealing batteries, the firo from which staggered and then drove back the rebel masses, whose desperate courage in that maddest of all assaults, was worthy of a better Cause. Twice during tho scries of battles, as once at Williamsburg, had Rogers risked his own life to save that of his captain; and in several of tho conflicts, ho had shown such coolness and courage, that positious were saved, which but for the infusion of his spirit into his comrades would have been ' 'H' One day about three weeks after the let- tor were written to Rogers, tho young lady whom we have culled Annie, received a reply from the soldier, dated, "In camp, near Harrison's Landing." It ran thus: "A good augel must havo put ito your heart to send me a letter, for it came just in time to save. I was in the guard-house for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders I was reckless and desperate. All my comrades were getting word from home letters came to them by every mail-but no one wrote to mo, or seemed to care for me. So I lost respect for myself, grewsour, un. happy, and indifferent to duty. But your kind words your talk about tho past time when you were my teacher your strong appeal to my better nature your calm, true, sweet sentences, dear lady, stirred : lity heart with new feelings and tilled toy j goncies of these times. The Conscription bill; eyes with tears. I was bef'oro my captain, I which, if effectually carried out, will renin disgrace, when your letter was placed ( ,ier the suppression of the rebellion tut in my hands. Ho waited for me to read j absolute certainty may yet bear upon our it; saw that 1 was touched, and like a man ! Northern people with a pressure uncxam-that he was, forgave my offence. Then j in all our previous history. Th pco-and there I resolved to die sooner than to pfo must be prepared to sustain it patient-swerve a hair's breadth from duty. I have ly and cheerfully. ThcGovernment cannot so been in fearful battles since, but God lias prepare them, for Government deals very kept me from harm. To-day, for bravery little iu argumentation or exhortation. It and fearful service in those battles, I have . must be done by agencies among tho pco-been made a Second Lieutenant. Thanks, , ,le themselves; in some measure by public thanks, to you kind friend! " You have journals, but chiefly by associations saved' one who came nigh being lost!" j like Union leagues. Theso organizations Fair reader, is thetc not in some far not only promote concurrence nf opinion, away camp,asoldierwho would bemadc bet-j j, they will facilitate coimerlof action, ter or happier through a letter from your: t00) Jf it shall he heeded. It is one of the hands? Think! If there is, write to him. . jjCst omens tifthctime.sthatthe.se leagues Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, write, arc multiplying wifli eueli rapidity' But often to the soldiers who have gone out from your homes. They are in the midst of temptations, trials, sufferings and privations, and your words of love, your tenderly manifested interest, jour exhortations to courage and duty, canttot fail to do them good. The Copperheads and Resistance lo the Laws. "Not to crush these scrpentsbeforc their rattles arc growli, would be ruinous," wrote Leo to Washington, in 1770, ot tho Long Island Tories, who avowed an in tention of resisting the authority of the Provincial Congress. Washington concurred but proceeded with characteristic discretion Ho replied to Leo: "You can siezc upon the persons of the principak; they must be so notoriously known that there will be littlo danger of committing mistakes." Lee tho historian says, acted up to the letter of these instructions, and, wiih a vigorous hatrd, disabled some of tho rankest of the species. It seems very probable thatsimiliar duties will devolve upon our present authorities. Not only are threats freely mado by the Copperhead leaders of resistance to tho Conscription bill of Congress, but open violence has already been offered against other laws for the flic!cricy of t'.ie army. The Copperhead chiefs, by secret associations and public harangues, are doing their utmost to foment a spirit of resist ance, i tiere cannot bo a question mat if they continue at their work with the samo freedom and tho came diligenco as for tho last two mouths, many Northern communities will have become so wrung upon by tho tiuio the Conscription bill takes practical effect, that they will bo fully prepared to resist it by force. There must be a prompt and thorough vindication of tho law, or thcro will be scenes of lawlessness and blood.hcd here in tho North, which will deplorably damage tho cause. But lot Washington's wisdom lo heeded. Striit at tin: inti)ittor. Theso men will j in the niiinl. There uie man,, opinions take preciwus good caro not themselves to I which it is improper to express If a uiuu use violence against authority. Not an I 's loyal and sensible, ho will express uo individual of them w'll ever bo caught iu (opinion that might injure his government, the overt act. They arc too warry for ) and if a government be hI war, it is maiii-that. Their busiuess is simply to uiukc j u!4 1"4 whatever diieoura;es confutes others the instruments of their traitorous ' "liich is disloyal. Let tho.-u who designs. They understand perfectly well j wish to enunciate dismal prophecies, abide how to cajole or provoke credulous or pas- j H" alternative of being considered eithe sionato men into armed resistance; and disloyal or lacking iu common shiso. and s they also understand just as well how to ! stop will soon be put to the continual and keep themselves well clear from tho perils that -"Jo environ Tho innn tliatuiethliet withoU iron." But these prime-movers arc really, by fir, tint most guilty of all engaged in resisting the law. They should bo the first marked; and should be relentlessly dealt with ou their very first offence. The law gives abundant authority. It attaches a penalty of fine and imprisonment to the counseliiii of resistance to a draft, or the coumeUny not to perform the required military duty, or tho counseling a soldier to desert. The Copperheads pro fess great indignatiou over these restraints. They have the presumption to stylo theiu infringements of their rightsof lien speech. Of course they know better than this, for many of them are lawyers. They know perfectly well the rule of universal law that he who in anv wise counsels another i r i . to commit an unlawful act, is an accessory in the crime, and liable to punishment. They Dillt M wul, 1le;lJ th(jlr ri,lt of f ,llccch. ;,, iwstisraliiier robbery ur mur- der; nay, better for those civil crimes would not bo a thousand th part so disastrous as would be the successful subver sions ofthoso military laws iu this great ua;ion!li cl.;Hja It not only devolves upon tho Government to enforce the law, iu iis strictest letter, upon these deela'uners and blotters, but it is equally the duty of the people to 1 arm and concentrate public opinion in support of this action. Tim fact should never be forgotten that, under our popular system of Government, the administration of law depending greatly upon the popular sentiment for its vigor. This must Le especially true of tho great exceptional measures which have sprung front tho exi ut Il0 ,eans of energizing and compacting the hyilty of the North be neglected. The laws must be effectively upheld by the Government but to that end the Government must be just us effectively upheld by the people. If each is true to the other, these plotters of Northern rebellion will soon be incapacitated from all further niischcif. (From tho Missouri Djmoemt. Covert Treason. Shielded by tho avowal of the loyal sentiments, there are persons who do uot hesitate, iu every opinion to reveal views which are inimical to the Covcrnnont. Their loyalty, forsooth, is beyond question) for they say so. The Government iswrong in this act, entirely wrong in that, abouii. nably iu others. In fact, the Government ts entirely wrong iu each act, and yot the Government is right in tho aggregate of ... ..I. i r its acts, 'litis is a kma ot loyalty wittcn, if not witnessed, could uot bo realised, yet it exists. Bo these persons deceive thamsclvcs? j They do not; but they many other person.', besides which, they do an incalculable amount of injury cither by the utterance of opinions which they claim tobe the honest convictions of their hearts, ot by prophecies of evcuta which they say aro sure to come to pass, although they would moot deeply deplore tho occurrences. Doubtless a loyal man may agree with Mr. Vallandighatn, that "tbd" nay which divides tho North from the South, that self-same day decrees eternal divorce between tho 'et and Entt.'' A loyal man, from a low estimate of human nature, may have this opinion; but would any thoroughly loyal aud sensible niau express it? Certainly uot; for a man both scr.si'jlo and loyal would know that the ittfluence of such a prophecy, pronounced with osur- . . i 1 l . - A" . :ance, would nave a aisucaricningeu ici, up on tho timid or weak-minded. It is not truo defence fur the expression IU Hit UI'llHOIl, llim ti n in -i- inwu.;;itir . I ! .. , I ... I t i, an - i .-,, n,jl,nn I i .. .:.:....., ...., .1... ..r ....... ...1, , Ant- UMUIUll ULLAUIV Ul lilUII BIl'ISU 1! 1 1 Ull u are entirely loyal in tho South. Moreover, tt every one strive to discgur. ago tho grossly material belief, that tho interests of trade are paramount to every, j thing else; th at where a river flows there minds and hearts must follow; that the soul of man is not his own, but is directed by the magnet of his interests that this world ;s one vast altar, on which each one offers up a moral suicide to mammon. The Tart of Uie lilacks In tlic War. The pait which the black rr.ee is to take iu the struggle now eoing on lor the life of the nation will be decisive of its issue, I as we believe and as we have said from! the time it begun. It ill l e, perhaps, the mast interesting and striking feature of this passage of our history when kernes to be written, when it is finished, whatever may be the character of tho record. Of all instances of jut retribution of tho annals of inaiiuiod. none can be more remark able than the necessity imposed by itiown criuie upon this nation of calling upon the despised race it has been oppressing lor so many generations to come to its help against the enemies that are striking at iU life. If this rebellion bo suppressed and the nation preserved iu its integrity, it must be through the help of that peeled and meted people to whose eiuel robbery and oppres-iruth sion ithassolongconsented. That this is fuily understood by lbs allies nf the trait ors in our armies and at the North, is seen in the villainous abuse to which the con-' trabauds anil the free people of color have . been subjected, by military ofiieers and soldiers, by legislative action and by mobs. But, happily for us, instinct is stronger than reasoning iu all men, and especially in simple and untaught limn. The slaves have felt, wherever our aimies havo approached them, that the hand of whomsoever was raised against their masters was also lilted up in their behalf. 1 hey have boon too long accustomed to iil-ur.age front white men to be surprised at it from Yankees, wheu they fell into the hands of any of tho meaner sort. They may have had small encouragement fro'it the troops in their neighborhood, often, but they had alili-long remembrance of what slavery had di ue for them, and they had small fears of Ilj iug to worse ills than those they had always endured. Hence, nothing has been able lo stop tho stream of Hack cmiixratioii to wards our linos, wherever they have been within possible reach. And to this in stinctive bulief we trust for the recruiting1 of Gen. llunler'i sable forces; The material being provided, we have already experience enough to know how easily it can bo manipulated and worked into good fight ing shape. Tho habits of subordination, the Afrieau ear fur music, their pride in promotion to a positiou which is Emanci-pation with a musket for its seal, all promised to work together to make good soldiers of them, and the New Orleans and Carolina regiments have proved that tho promise will be fulfilled. It is not gratifying to our Caucasian pride to feci that w have been obliged to call ou the negroes to se cure the existence of our State, anl therf has been no littlo (ore in the ad ia-linavm appeals of Copperhead traitors to Northern prejudice ou this ground. But wc apprehend that when the Conscription begin to walk abroad and to look into evory family fof stuffout of which to ma ko soldiers, many a Dcmseratic household will fccjlhat if a black soldier ean be had to replace whito one, his complexion is not beyond the pale of pardon. We conceive that the Conscription when itbcoooies an imuiineot fact will work much conversion as to this doctrine. If this war be for the negroes, as the Copperheads affirm, why should uot the negroes fight it out? Tl. .J.,1..U Y n.,,t fr.r . cigar pulled ont a littlo swad of gummy j and then with a roll and a atout jump greasy filthy postago stamp. "Can't you managed to land Mto'y on th other bido-give nm hard monry asUI the ciar I Then how h rjtd "his tail, and eaperevl ladv well, madam, ro'pcnded.v Ihavofe.'ni , , , . .- , i,..; ,. , , , . ,'. , . about. hwI rarKria tor lev at mi nawng very little harder looking iuoueythan.lbat ! ' J , otastrrAd tha JitUcuitv. Thi next time ho Women re said to hare stronger t taekmcnts thatl men. It is not fo. A man is often attached to an old hat, but did you ever ktiow a Woman having an attachment for au old bonnet? Echo answors "Never!'' If a man cheat vou once, blaino him; if! he cheat you a second time, blame your- Mjr . ,. .., ' Y , Lid.es are like watches pretty enough to look at sweet faces aud delieato haeds, but somewhat difficult to "regulata? when CUCP !int 11U " " ' l)ilurcn'5 olumu For tli Child's Tuper. The Disobliging Hoy. "Hiil'm, I wunf you to go and pull u; the weeds round thti currant bu-hea ne.ir til great hoiM-y-siu kle." (Mid Mr. Nuwtou one morning to his son of ten years. j "C;mi'i 1 do it nl noi ri ir? I just want to finish :his.'' I'liif'in w;is whittling out au kirvw. "Well, 1.0..U iberi, only don't forgot k," -iid his l'.;!nr Noon ckinej Rules gut home fi-Min s.hoi;). anl liii fuller from tho store, "Hvc you don that weeding I told you w u!" a?ked Mr, u IV tut). "Oh, father, 'in s)dreal;u! hot," said l'ur'us in it fretful tonu; "can't, you get old l)oloil' to do it." What do you think of a boy who will ay that to his father? "I'ufus, run up stairs and get my purju," said his mother. "Can't earrie go? You never ask her u do thing,'' answered the little boy without offering to move. Carrie jumped up, went and brought tho purse to her Millibar. As llufus took hk cap, "Stop," said Mrs Newton, "I want to giv you a bundle to take to Mrs. Thorn-" "Oh, mother," said Rufus with nn unwilling twist to his shoulders, "wont it do ju4 as well al ter school!'" 'Hut's the way he treated his mother. Dear old grandmother sat with her hands folded all the forenoon for want of a skein of yarn. When llufus came in, sho took her knitting work, an 1 unrolling it, 'Rufus." said she, "I want some little bov to go down in town and buy uie a skein of white yarn. Do you kituwol'uny littlii buy w ho would liko to do so much for his old grandmother?" "I don't ktiow as I do' answered he. "Well, dou'toit want to go?" asked the old lady, liuding a more direct application nueessaiy to meet her wanU Oh, grandmother it raitis," cried the lmlo bo (era toe case. 'Rains, does it? That al-I did nm know it rained;" 'mid shu turned to the window, looking out over her spectacles. "Il'sjust going to," said llufus, "and I'm so heal out phtyiug footbail." "Oh. well," said the old lady, patiently foldiug her Lauds ag'ia That ib a disobliging boy's viivtubu graud-luuthei'."Ri.fy, lead me your I nilc jujt oit' miu-uie," tibk.'d hi; aisii.T. "You are always wanting knitb.'' ei leJ Rufus iu a crons tone. "Why don't y...u Acuea knife yourself, 4lJ in l for i ver keep asking fi r mine." lleii.iioied it to Iot, but in a way that made her feel i.ud to take it. Ou hi uy tlu.iUijh the kitchen, ''.Ru-fas," il.I Bridget, "wont you now split iu up u lew kiinllUtgs to nuke my pot boil?" Split Vourself," Was Rutin' cubbed re- llefei-i ihe jiteturo of a duoMlglug bey. Hum uo you hke it? I'ossessed ot' a temper never williug;ttlwy? making objections, how pou'id -ueh a chili like to bo paid iu his tmu coin how like to be trqittd as he treats his belt friends? When Bufus h.ta outgrown his coat, and worn out Lis boots, and about used up his cup, und asks his father fot;uew clothes, Law would he feel to hear hint say, "Oil, you cost me so much; go and ask "omcbody else for new clothes'"-or not finding a shirt to put on, and asking his mother for one she should say, "Wont it do just as well next year, llufus?" nippoe the sun should make nbjectioni to shiiiine, or the clouds to rain, or '.h row to give her roilk, or the fire to burn. Suppose God hud refused to allow his Son Jei Chris', to come and save n, or should be unwilling to open heaven and lot us in. Ah, children, there is no room for a disobliging spirit itero. Evory body and every thing is obliging ymi, and you should "do as vou wotdd bo done by." Carlo and the DItcli- A gAnfletnan riding out onr d.iy, followed by his little d:g, camo to a doep ditch, which pony readily leapedjbut it wa wider than liulo Carlo thought hi eou'd jump. He brgn to whin pitifuliy. "Com, my littltf follow, coma along Carlo," cried his waster in the kindest . . , .1 -I- J- tone. AliasiLsrtowenioacKaiewyarus, - ! catno m tiie diich, he jumj-sl ovor easily and without ntindii.g it. When tho i-'aiMrM come t bird place, cither n' Itotm er nt n-bool, lotlu.' Icini word of nv.Mr-iU'.fAiU be Riven, and they will muwr their strength jump ovt-r, auJ go on tbair way rjujiiiij. j ! A you "4 cou'or'pt ftf sick and was 'cut j to tho uiiliiary lowpiud. A bath was or 'deredit was brought int tie chamber n hy L(j iookedat it Ul,rJ : t;jr ima thm ho threw up hi haoda in J bwlcl 'i (it-ovr. 1 can't drink all tiiylt

FOL IX. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO THURSDAY, APRIL 1G, 1863. NO. 24. THE MOl NT VKRSOX HEPl liLICAN T K 11 M S : For one year ( invariably iu ndvance)8-.00 lor six nonUis, TKHMS (r AI'VKUTtSl.NO. One sijuare, " week, One square, !! months, One square, U muiiths, One square, 1 year, One square (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly. Two squares, '! weeks, Two squares, 0 weeks, Two squares, " months, Two squares, 0 months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, ii weeks, Three squares, li weeks, Three squares, 3 mouth, Three squares, 0 months, Threo suuares. 1 vear, 1,00 i 0(1 4,;U li.00 lU.OU 15.00 i'-.- !i.2f I ('..;.) s.oo 2.50 4,50 (i.lill 8.00 10AJ0 One-1'ourth column, chan. quarterly, l.'i.DO Oncthird " ' 11 " --.00 One-hall' " " " 28,0(1 One column, changeable quarterly, 50,00 All local notices of advertisements, or calling attention to tiny enterprise nitciuluJ to benefit individuals or corporations, will ho charged at the rate often cents per line. Select poctvn THE HOME OF MY YOUTH. BY V. C. (iOUI.D. 'Can this be the home of my youth Where iu childhood Igaiubol'dauc'.play'd Can this be the house where I liv'd And it; that the fame room where I lay? Oh! where is that tree, where the birds Came so o'tjii to chirp and to sing? Can that be the same running brook Whence the water we often did bring? How vacant, how scattered those woods, Where the pheasant oft beat with his wing Wher,e flie whippowill always was heard U'Jacn tlieevcuwgfl grew sarw in ! spring ! The willow and black-walnut trtes, With their hws!cs of nuts all around, Which the swine li.d , patiently crack Till the snow lay quite deep on the ground ! Those pear trees that bore in the fall. And were sure tobe loaded with fruit-That stood up so straight and so tall, Are dead from the top to the root. That soft, gentle voice of my mother The voice that was always so dear 'Twould be sweeter than lnusic of heaven, If now it could break on luv ear. Oh. that mother .'that dearest of mothers! Not a mortal o.i earth can I find Whcretheohurdsofattaehnientarecqual 1J here the chains of affection so kind. If now I could see my dear mother If but ever I could meet her again How light would that heart be within me, And my tears would run dowu like the rain! But my father and mother arc gone, And my mother 'aud sisters are dead; Oh! how lonely, how dreary I feel, While my heart weighs within mc like lead! MY IIISBAXD. I love the man who well can bear " Misfortunes angry frown; I love tho heart that spurns despair Though all its friends have flowu. I love tho soul so nobly proud That misery cannot blight; Tho soul that braves tho jeering crowd And still adheres to right. I love that fortitude rcGncd H'liich sorrows cannot shake; I love the strength of soul and mind No earthly power can break. I love the man that scorus to bend Beneath affections blast Who trusts in an Almighty friend To soothe his woes at last. HOW THEY DID IT. The magnates of Uichmoud all sworo out of hand, That tho war must go in tho enemies' laud. And it did. When they crossed to the Maryland shore, They turned all into foes who were friendly before. Continental. A writer beautifully remarks that a man's mother is the representative of his Maker. Misfortuue and crime set no harriers bf twepn her and her son. While his mother lives, a man has one friend on earth who wiJi not desert him when lie is needy. lIcrfToetion flows from a pure nilnlnin t.n.l , ... 1 r, I 1,A . . .ul,),uu,Mai11,ui, ui nm uvcuu 01 eternity. The Soldier's Letter. iiv t. .s. Aitnint. "When did von hear from Thomas''" A vuiini; i,i . liii l .. . r . g lady had stopped at the door of a '-ninll house, standing on the outskirts of a ...WiivillHL'einlVniisylvuiia.andaskedthiHnues - tioii of a wi iiian who sat working i coarse garment, "It't more than two mouths since a nl I've! had a word from him." replied the woman i11 " hlf troubled, half complaining tone. Thou rising, she added, "won't you come in, .Mi.-s Annie!''' The young lady accepted the invitation, and as the took the proffered chair, caid: 'Two mouth is a long time not to have hctrd from yourson, Mrs. llogers. Where is he?" 'The last news I had come from Williamsburg, just after the battle, lie sent uie three or four lines to let uie know that ho wasn't hurt." "And you have heard nothing since?" "Nothing, Miss Annie. lie may be dead or a prisoner, for all 1 know. Oil dear' Oh dear! It is worrying the life out of me." 'When, did you write to him last?" inquired the young lady. Mrs llogers moved uneasily, and a shame flush covered her face ins she replied: ' I haven't taken a pen in my fingers these five years. They're all cramped with hard work, and I couldn't write fit to be teen." "A single line from your hand, blotted and serwled though it might havo been, would havo come toThonias in his faraway camp as a most welcome visitor from home. Think of his comrades getting letters every mail while there camo not a word or a tokcu for him." "Oh! but Miss Annie, I've sent him two nali- of stockiiiL's knit with my own hands, auJ h(j,g SQ much as Iot mc kll(nv hu rcceived ,ilcm "A 'fetter should havo accompanied them." said the young lady. "The stockings, if they ever reached him, were but a dumb sign; a living sentence, even if ho had been obliged to spell it out slowly from ill-formed words, would havo spoken to his heart, and warmed it with a living pleasure. Write to your sou,, Mrs llogers. Nothing you can send himfeiU do Thomas half as much good as a letter from his mother. A single line will bo precious. Don't let him any longer have the feeling among his comrads, that he alone has no one to care for him, or send him sweet remembrances." 'f thm't believe I can write, Miss Au- i I nic," said Mrs llogers. ! "Try. Have you a pen and ink?" j "No Miss. As 1 told you just now, I I have not had a pen m my lingers these five years; and 1 don't believe I could compose a letter even if I had skill to write it out, "You must try, Mrs llogers. It will never do in the world for Thomas to goany longer without a letter from home. I have a spare inkstand, and will step around for it," And the young lady arose, sayiiig,as she went cut: "I'll he back in a little while, with pen, ink, and paper. Between us Thomas must have a letter." On Annie's return with the writing ma. terials, Mrs llogsrs, still reluctant to undertake the unaccustomed task of penning a letter, sat down, half perforce, audiuade sundry awkward atteuips to form words aud sentences, by way of practice, before essaying the epistle, which her ardent young visitor had mado up her mind should be produced and mailed to an absent soldier that day. "Very well done! Of course vou can i write!" said Annie, encouragingly, as she watched tho efforts of Mrs llogers. "Now take a sheet of paper, and just think you are talking to him. Writedown whatever you would like to say, just as much about home, of what is going on hero as you think would interest him, as you can call it to mind. Take your time to it, aud don't feel hurried. L 11 coma around again in the course of an hour, and see what you have done. Then we'll both go over it, and I'll make all tho corrections needed o that you can copy it out fairly. My word for it, there will be a nice letter for Thomas, that will do do his heart good." In an hour Annie came back, as she hal promised. Jrs llogers had fiillcd two pages of paper with rather badly spelled sentences, hut the matter was all right, as far as it went. Annie made all needed corrections, and then waited until Mrs llogers had copied the letter whbh she folded and directed for her. "Shall I mail it for you?" "If you please," said Mrs llogcr". Aud the young lady went away, taking the letter. Since learning that Thomas Rjgcrs, whom she very well ccincntherod I' . I ' , ... - . 1 iiau not onco recciveu a letter jrom Ins I mother, although he had been absent over a year, she had felt pily uud concered for the young man, whom felio reincmherod as a little wild in his habits before ho wont into the army. This had made her the j luil'. ni'rr.tiif ll..i 1. .....It..... . .1 . ! ' mci.,,. in,,,, uic muiuei miuiuu no . , . .,' , . . :"", "l"-' " ' ""ul'' ""-' cncunisuiuces. ; v, : .. , i ' . i i , ... . ., v" -.. " , .u,,. .u.aT,u uweu on me young 1 ' . . i ... , 1 . . i particular case, 11 uiu uoi seem 10 icr all tliat was needed. 'I will write to him?' she said, as the! jcaso continued to dwell in her mind, pre sented itself in a stronger light. He was once, for a short time, my scholar in Sunday School, and that shall be my warrant.' So she wrote him a brief, but pointed and earnest letter, touching his duty as a soldier and as a man. Not in a superior, lecturing tone; but in a kind suggestive way, and in language calculated to touch his feelings and arouse his better nature. Au officer sat in his tent, near Ciains' Mills, Virginia, three days previous to tho assault on the right winy of our army before Uichmoud. 'In the guard-house again!' he said, speaking to the orderly, who had just submitted his report. There were regret us well as discouragement in his voice. 'What are wo to do with tho man?' 'You will have to order severe punish-mcnts. Single confinement iu the guardhouse is of no use.' 'lie has in him all the elemcuts of a good soldier,' remarked the efficer. No one goes through the manual better. He is perfectly drilled; is quick, steady and brave. At Williamsburg he fought like a liou. I cannot forget, that to his prompt courage I owe my life. No no not severe punishment. Wc must bear with him a little longer. What is his olTeuce now?' 'lie was away at roll call; aud his report of himself is not satisfactory. The man is restless and brooding; and sometimes is so ill-uatuu.d as to make trouble with his comrades.' The officer sat in thought some time He was about speaking when a sergeant came iu with letters, a mail having been received. In running his eyes over them he noticed two directed to Thomas llogers, the soldier reported in the guard-house.- lie held them for a moment in lus hand, and then laid them aside with his own letters.'Let me see you in half au hourhe paid to the orderly. 'We must do something to reform this man. There is good iu hiin if we can only discover tho way to make it active.' The orderly ret i ltd, and the officer be- came occupied with his letters. After get- ting through with thcin, word was passed to have Rogers brought before him. lie came under guard, but the guard was dismissed, aud the man was alone with the officer, who regarded him more in pity than in anger. The soldier was u young man, not over twenty years of age; of slender form, but compactly built, and muscular. Kveu under disgrace, there was a manly self-poise about him that did uot escape tho officer's notice. "Under arrest again! What have you to say for yourself?" the officer tried to be stcru and to speak with severity. The soldier did not answer, but a look, half dogged, half defiant, was visible in his face. "I shall have to order severe punishment."There was no reply only a slight change in attitude and expression of countenance, that indicated a bracing of mind and nerve for more endurance. "When did you hear from home?" ask ed the officer, who did not remember to have sceu a letter addressed to Rogers uu til the receipt of that day's mail. "Not for a long time," was answered, and with apparent surprise at so unexpected a question. "Here arc two letters to your address." And the officer, who had tho letters in his hand, held them towards the soldier, who started with a strange look of surprise and bewilderment, and received the,m with a hand that trembled visibly. "Sit down and read them," said the officer, pointing to a camp-stool. Tho man sat down, showing considerable excitement, and, after looking curiously at tho delicate ly written superscriptions, opened one of tho letters and glanced it through hurriedly. The officer's gaze was on him, and he read in bis counteu anco the rapid play. of various emotions. Then ho opened the second letter, which ho read twice. As he finished it ho drew his hand hastily across his eyes. "From home?" queried tho officer. The young man stood up, giving the usual sign of respect, as he answered in the affirmative. The officer noticed that his flice WM gravcr anJ paici.. onJ tllat all the late look of dogged defiau:e had faded out. "And now, Rogers, what have you to Ray for yourself? Will you foreo us to severer punishment? You know, as Well us I do, that discipline must ho enforced. " There was rcnionstance, not anger, iu the . IV. '. oiiiccr a voice, "Only this, answerod tho soldier, hum- L, t ; u (h.m yoI I have done wrong, and am sorry. Forgive uie; and if 1 break a rule of the service again, shoot o i mc. ''S'w,kc,n liko " mn aml a.s,M,!r: . 1 will trust llogers," said the olliccr, and dis missing the guard, ho sent him to duty. Two days afterwards camo that overwhelming" assault upon our right wing, and on tho next day the terrible conflict at Gaines' 31 ill. Among tho coolest and bravest in all the fierce battles that followed, and among tho mot enduring in the long nights of retreat was young llogers. llo wtfs with a body of infantry which lay at Malvern Hill, under our death dealing batteries, the firo from which staggered and then drove back the rebel masses, whose desperate courage in that maddest of all assaults, was worthy of a better Cause. Twice during tho scries of battles, as once at Williamsburg, had Rogers risked his own life to save that of his captain; and in several of tho conflicts, ho had shown such coolness and courage, that positious were saved, which but for the infusion of his spirit into his comrades would have been ' 'H' One day about three weeks after the let- tor were written to Rogers, tho young lady whom we have culled Annie, received a reply from the soldier, dated, "In camp, near Harrison's Landing." It ran thus: "A good augel must havo put ito your heart to send me a letter, for it came just in time to save. I was in the guard-house for neglect of duty and disobedience of orders I was reckless and desperate. All my comrades were getting word from home letters came to them by every mail-but no one wrote to mo, or seemed to care for me. So I lost respect for myself, grewsour, un. happy, and indifferent to duty. But your kind words your talk about tho past time when you were my teacher your strong appeal to my better nature your calm, true, sweet sentences, dear lady, stirred : lity heart with new feelings and tilled toy j goncies of these times. The Conscription bill; eyes with tears. I was bef'oro my captain, I which, if effectually carried out, will renin disgrace, when your letter was placed ( ,ier the suppression of the rebellion tut in my hands. Ho waited for me to read j absolute certainty may yet bear upon our it; saw that 1 was touched, and like a man ! Northern people with a pressure uncxam-that he was, forgave my offence. Then j in all our previous history. Th pco-and there I resolved to die sooner than to pfo must be prepared to sustain it patient-swerve a hair's breadth from duty. I have ly and cheerfully. ThcGovernment cannot so been in fearful battles since, but God lias prepare them, for Government deals very kept me from harm. To-day, for bravery little iu argumentation or exhortation. It and fearful service in those battles, I have . must be done by agencies among tho pco-been made a Second Lieutenant. Thanks, , ,le themselves; in some measure by public thanks, to you kind friend! " You have journals, but chiefly by associations saved' one who came nigh being lost!" j like Union leagues. Theso organizations Fair reader, is thetc not in some far not only promote concurrence nf opinion, away camp,asoldierwho would bemadc bet-j j, they will facilitate coimerlof action, ter or happier through a letter from your: t00) Jf it shall he heeded. It is one of the hands? Think! If there is, write to him. . jjCst omens tifthctime.sthatthe.se leagues Brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers, write, arc multiplying wifli eueli rapidity' But often to the soldiers who have gone out from your homes. They are in the midst of temptations, trials, sufferings and privations, and your words of love, your tenderly manifested interest, jour exhortations to courage and duty, canttot fail to do them good. The Copperheads and Resistance lo the Laws. "Not to crush these scrpentsbeforc their rattles arc growli, would be ruinous," wrote Leo to Washington, in 1770, ot tho Long Island Tories, who avowed an in tention of resisting the authority of the Provincial Congress. Washington concurred but proceeded with characteristic discretion Ho replied to Leo: "You can siezc upon the persons of the principak; they must be so notoriously known that there will be littlo danger of committing mistakes." Lee tho historian says, acted up to the letter of these instructions, and, wiih a vigorous hatrd, disabled some of tho rankest of the species. It seems very probable thatsimiliar duties will devolve upon our present authorities. Not only are threats freely mado by the Copperhead leaders of resistance to tho Conscription bill of Congress, but open violence has already been offered against other laws for the flic!cricy of t'.ie army. The Copperhead chiefs, by secret associations and public harangues, are doing their utmost to foment a spirit of resist ance, i tiere cannot bo a question mat if they continue at their work with the samo freedom and tho came diligenco as for tho last two mouths, many Northern communities will have become so wrung upon by tho tiuio the Conscription bill takes practical effect, that they will bo fully prepared to resist it by force. There must be a prompt and thorough vindication of tho law, or thcro will be scenes of lawlessness and blood.hcd here in tho North, which will deplorably damage tho cause. But lot Washington's wisdom lo heeded. Striit at tin: inti)ittor. Theso men will j in the niiinl. There uie man,, opinions take preciwus good caro not themselves to I which it is improper to express If a uiuu use violence against authority. Not an I 's loyal and sensible, ho will express uo individual of them w'll ever bo caught iu (opinion that might injure his government, the overt act. They arc too warry for ) and if a government be hI war, it is maiii-that. Their busiuess is simply to uiukc j u!4 1"4 whatever diieoura;es confutes others the instruments of their traitorous ' "liich is disloyal. Let tho.-u who designs. They understand perfectly well j wish to enunciate dismal prophecies, abide how to cajole or provoke credulous or pas- j H" alternative of being considered eithe sionato men into armed resistance; and disloyal or lacking iu common shiso. and s they also understand just as well how to ! stop will soon be put to the continual and keep themselves well clear from tho perils that -"Jo environ Tho innn tliatuiethliet withoU iron." But these prime-movers arc really, by fir, tint most guilty of all engaged in resisting the law. They should bo the first marked; and should be relentlessly dealt with ou their very first offence. The law gives abundant authority. It attaches a penalty of fine and imprisonment to the counseliiii of resistance to a draft, or the coumeUny not to perform the required military duty, or tho counseling a soldier to desert. The Copperheads pro fess great indignatiou over these restraints. They have the presumption to stylo theiu infringements of their rightsof lien speech. Of course they know better than this, for many of them are lawyers. They know perfectly well the rule of universal law that he who in anv wise counsels another i r i . to commit an unlawful act, is an accessory in the crime, and liable to punishment. They Dillt M wul, 1le;lJ th(jlr ri,lt of f ,llccch. ;,, iwstisraliiier robbery ur mur- der; nay, better for those civil crimes would not bo a thousand th part so disastrous as would be the successful subver sions ofthoso military laws iu this great ua;ion!li cl.;Hja It not only devolves upon tho Government to enforce the law, iu iis strictest letter, upon these deela'uners and blotters, but it is equally the duty of the people to 1 arm and concentrate public opinion in support of this action. Tim fact should never be forgotten that, under our popular system of Government, the administration of law depending greatly upon the popular sentiment for its vigor. This must Le especially true of tho great exceptional measures which have sprung front tho exi ut Il0 ,eans of energizing and compacting the hyilty of the North be neglected. The laws must be effectively upheld by the Government but to that end the Government must be just us effectively upheld by the people. If each is true to the other, these plotters of Northern rebellion will soon be incapacitated from all further niischcif. (From tho Missouri Djmoemt. Covert Treason. Shielded by tho avowal of the loyal sentiments, there are persons who do uot hesitate, iu every opinion to reveal views which are inimical to the Covcrnnont. Their loyalty, forsooth, is beyond question) for they say so. The Government iswrong in this act, entirely wrong in that, abouii. nably iu others. In fact, the Government ts entirely wrong iu each act, and yot the Government is right in tho aggregate of ... ..I. i r its acts, 'litis is a kma ot loyalty wittcn, if not witnessed, could uot bo realised, yet it exists. Bo these persons deceive thamsclvcs? j They do not; but they many other person.', besides which, they do an incalculable amount of injury cither by the utterance of opinions which they claim tobe the honest convictions of their hearts, ot by prophecies of evcuta which they say aro sure to come to pass, although they would moot deeply deplore tho occurrences. Doubtless a loyal man may agree with Mr. Vallandighatn, that "tbd" nay which divides tho North from the South, that self-same day decrees eternal divorce between tho 'et and Entt.'' A loyal man, from a low estimate of human nature, may have this opinion; but would any thoroughly loyal aud sensible niau express it? Certainly uot; for a man both scr.si'jlo and loyal would know that the ittfluence of such a prophecy, pronounced with osur- . . i 1 l . - A" . :ance, would nave a aisucaricningeu ici, up on tho timid or weak-minded. It is not truo defence fur the expression IU Hit UI'llHOIl, llim ti n in -i- inwu.;;itir . I ! .. , I ... I t i, an - i .-,, n,jl,nn I i .. .:.:....., ...., .1... ..r ....... ...1, , Ant- UMUIUll ULLAUIV Ul lilUII BIl'ISU 1! 1 1 Ull u are entirely loyal in tho South. Moreover, tt every one strive to discgur. ago tho grossly material belief, that tho interests of trade are paramount to every, j thing else; th at where a river flows there minds and hearts must follow; that the soul of man is not his own, but is directed by the magnet of his interests that this world ;s one vast altar, on which each one offers up a moral suicide to mammon. The Tart of Uie lilacks In tlic War. The pait which the black rr.ee is to take iu the struggle now eoing on lor the life of the nation will be decisive of its issue, I as we believe and as we have said from! the time it begun. It ill l e, perhaps, the mast interesting and striking feature of this passage of our history when kernes to be written, when it is finished, whatever may be the character of tho record. Of all instances of jut retribution of tho annals of inaiiuiod. none can be more remark able than the necessity imposed by itiown criuie upon this nation of calling upon the despised race it has been oppressing lor so many generations to come to its help against the enemies that are striking at iU life. If this rebellion bo suppressed and the nation preserved iu its integrity, it must be through the help of that peeled and meted people to whose eiuel robbery and oppres-iruth sion ithassolongconsented. That this is fuily understood by lbs allies nf the trait ors in our armies and at the North, is seen in the villainous abuse to which the con-' trabauds anil the free people of color have . been subjected, by military ofiieers and soldiers, by legislative action and by mobs. But, happily for us, instinct is stronger than reasoning iu all men, and especially in simple and untaught limn. The slaves have felt, wherever our aimies havo approached them, that the hand of whomsoever was raised against their masters was also lilted up in their behalf. 1 hey have boon too long accustomed to iil-ur.age front white men to be surprised at it from Yankees, wheu they fell into the hands of any of tho meaner sort. They may have had small encouragement fro'it the troops in their neighborhood, often, but they had alili-long remembrance of what slavery had di ue for them, and they had small fears of Ilj iug to worse ills than those they had always endured. Hence, nothing has been able lo stop tho stream of Hack cmiixratioii to wards our linos, wherever they have been within possible reach. And to this in stinctive bulief we trust for the recruiting1 of Gen. llunler'i sable forces; The material being provided, we have already experience enough to know how easily it can bo manipulated and worked into good fight ing shape. Tho habits of subordination, the Afrieau ear fur music, their pride in promotion to a positiou which is Emanci-pation with a musket for its seal, all promised to work together to make good soldiers of them, and the New Orleans and Carolina regiments have proved that tho promise will be fulfilled. It is not gratifying to our Caucasian pride to feci that w have been obliged to call ou the negroes to se cure the existence of our State, anl therf has been no littlo (ore in the ad ia-linavm appeals of Copperhead traitors to Northern prejudice ou this ground. But wc apprehend that when the Conscription begin to walk abroad and to look into evory family fof stuffout of which to ma ko soldiers, many a Dcmseratic household will fccjlhat if a black soldier ean be had to replace whito one, his complexion is not beyond the pale of pardon. We conceive that the Conscription when itbcoooies an imuiineot fact will work much conversion as to this doctrine. If this war be for the negroes, as the Copperheads affirm, why should uot the negroes fight it out? Tl. .J.,1..U Y n.,,t fr.r . cigar pulled ont a littlo swad of gummy j and then with a roll and a atout jump greasy filthy postago stamp. "Can't you managed to land Mto'y on th other bido-give nm hard monry asUI the ciar I Then how h rjtd "his tail, and eaperevl ladv well, madam, ro'pcnded.v Ihavofe.'ni , , , . .- , i,..; ,. , , , . ,'. , . about. hwI rarKria tor lev at mi nawng very little harder looking iuoueythan.lbat ! ' J , otastrrAd tha JitUcuitv. Thi next time ho Women re said to hare stronger t taekmcnts thatl men. It is not fo. A man is often attached to an old hat, but did you ever ktiow a Woman having an attachment for au old bonnet? Echo answors "Never!'' If a man cheat vou once, blaino him; if! he cheat you a second time, blame your- Mjr . ,. .., ' Y , Lid.es are like watches pretty enough to look at sweet faces aud delieato haeds, but somewhat difficult to "regulata? when CUCP !int 11U " " ' l)ilurcn'5 olumu For tli Child's Tuper. The Disobliging Hoy. "Hiil'm, I wunf you to go and pull u; the weeds round thti currant bu-hea ne.ir til great hoiM-y-siu kle." (Mid Mr. Nuwtou one morning to his son of ten years. j "C;mi'i 1 do it nl noi ri ir? I just want to finish :his.'' I'liif'in w;is whittling out au kirvw. "Well, 1.0..U iberi, only don't forgot k," -iid his l'.;!nr Noon ckinej Rules gut home fi-Min s.hoi;). anl liii fuller from tho store, "Hvc you don that weeding I told you w u!" a?ked Mr, u IV tut). "Oh, father, 'in s)dreal;u! hot," said l'ur'us in it fretful tonu; "can't, you get old l)oloil' to do it." What do you think of a boy who will ay that to his father? "I'ufus, run up stairs and get my purju," said his mother. "Can't earrie go? You never ask her u do thing,'' answered the little boy without offering to move. Carrie jumped up, went and brought tho purse to her Millibar. As llufus took hk cap, "Stop," said Mrs Newton, "I want to giv you a bundle to take to Mrs. Thorn-" "Oh, mother," said Rufus with nn unwilling twist to his shoulders, "wont it do ju4 as well al ter school!'" 'Hut's the way he treated his mother. Dear old grandmother sat with her hands folded all the forenoon for want of a skein of yarn. When llufus came in, sho took her knitting work, an 1 unrolling it, 'Rufus." said she, "I want some little bov to go down in town and buy uie a skein of white yarn. Do you kituwol'uny littlii buy w ho would liko to do so much for his old grandmother?" "I don't ktiow as I do' answered he. "Well, dou'toit want to go?" asked the old lady, liuding a more direct application nueessaiy to meet her wanU Oh, grandmother it raitis," cried the lmlo bo (era toe case. 'Rains, does it? That al-I did nm know it rained;" 'mid shu turned to the window, looking out over her spectacles. "Il'sjust going to," said llufus, "and I'm so heal out phtyiug footbail." "Oh. well," said the old lady, patiently foldiug her Lauds ag'ia That ib a disobliging boy's viivtubu graud-luuthei'."Ri.fy, lead me your I nilc jujt oit' miu-uie," tibk.'d hi; aisii.T. "You are always wanting knitb.'' ei leJ Rufus iu a crons tone. "Why don't y...u Acuea knife yourself, 4lJ in l for i ver keep asking fi r mine." lleii.iioied it to Iot, but in a way that made her feel i.ud to take it. Ou hi uy tlu.iUijh the kitchen, ''.Ru-fas," il.I Bridget, "wont you now split iu up u lew kiinllUtgs to nuke my pot boil?" Split Vourself," Was Rutin' cubbed re- llefei-i ihe jiteturo of a duoMlglug bey. Hum uo you hke it? I'ossessed ot' a temper never williug;ttlwy? making objections, how pou'id -ueh a chili like to bo paid iu his tmu coin how like to be trqittd as he treats his belt friends? When Bufus h.ta outgrown his coat, and worn out Lis boots, and about used up his cup, und asks his father fot;uew clothes, Law would he feel to hear hint say, "Oil, you cost me so much; go and ask "omcbody else for new clothes'"-or not finding a shirt to put on, and asking his mother for one she should say, "Wont it do just as well next year, llufus?" nippoe the sun should make nbjectioni to shiiiine, or the clouds to rain, or '.h row to give her roilk, or the fire to burn. Suppose God hud refused to allow his Son Jei Chris', to come and save n, or should be unwilling to open heaven and lot us in. Ah, children, there is no room for a disobliging spirit itero. Evory body and every thing is obliging ymi, and you should "do as vou wotdd bo done by." Carlo and the DItcli- A gAnfletnan riding out onr d.iy, followed by his little d:g, camo to a doep ditch, which pony readily leapedjbut it wa wider than liulo Carlo thought hi eou'd jump. He brgn to whin pitifuliy. "Com, my littltf follow, coma along Carlo," cried his waster in the kindest . . , .1 -I- J- tone. AliasiLsrtowenioacKaiewyarus, - ! catno m tiie diich, he jumj-sl ovor easily and without ntindii.g it. When tho i-'aiMrM come t bird place, cither n' Itotm er nt n-bool, lotlu.' Icini word of nv.Mr-iU'.fAiU be Riven, and they will muwr their strength jump ovt-r, auJ go on tbair way rjujiiiij. j ! A you "4 cou'or'pt ftf sick and was 'cut j to tho uiiliiary lowpiud. A bath was or 'deredit was brought int tie chamber n hy L(j iookedat it Ul,rJ : t;jr ima thm ho threw up hi haoda in J bwlcl 'i (it-ovr. 1 can't drink all tiiylt